John Kennedy Toole Research, and Other Research and Musings by Vernon Leighton

A place for research and musings by Vernon Leighton. The blog began with literary research on the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, but it has expanded to include research on the theory of humor and mirth, research on artificial intelligence LLMs, and research on literary criticism itself, including Evolutionary Literary Criticism (ELC) and Cultural Evolutionary Criticism (CELC). There was even a brief exploration of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Transcript of Lecture "Dialectic of American Humanism" available

When I gave a lecture on the content of my Renascence article "The Dialectic of American Humanism" in March of 2012, I wrote the entire lecture script out. I have now made the script of the lecture available. Click here for the transcript. For the blog announcement of the lecture, click here.